Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1910 — INDIANA HEMP GROWING. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HEMP GROWING.

D. S. Myers Will Give 325 Acres to it This Year in Northern Indiana.

South Bend, Ind., April I. The raising nd marketing of hemp is northern Indiana’s latest industry. D. S. Myres will turn his farm of 325 acres over to the growing of hemp. Myres brought from Kentucky 181 negroes, men and women, on a special train. He began his experiment last fall, when he grew a crop of 400,000 pounds, which will bring 3 to 7 cents a pound, government experts from Washington having pronounced the crop as good as any raised in the country. The negroes have been brought here to break the hemp. Inasmuch as much of the crop was raised on marsh land, owners of land on the Kankakee are watching the result with interest, and the chances are that they will follow Myer’s example next fall and turn rforthern Indiana in-

to one of the -greatest hemp raising districts of the United States.